Firuz Nekoo

Firuz Nekoo (598-641) was a general of the Sassanid Empire. Nekoo was one of the Persian commanders that resisted the Muslim conquest of Persia from 633 to 641, when he was defeated at the Battle of Shadegan.

Biography
Firuz Nekoo was born in 598 in Ardashir, Sassanid Empire (present-day Iran) to a Zoroastrian Persian family. Nekoo was a member of the nobility, and he was made a general of the Sassanid Army. In 641 AD, he led an army of 793 troops against the Muslim Rashidun Caliphate at the Battle of Shadegan, but he was defeated and he fled from the field. When he returned to Ctesiphon, he was executed for cowardice and his failure to gain a victory.